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Migrate from VMware tools to open-vm-tools in CentOS

Luca Dell'Oca, January 26, 2016December 4, 2016

In 2012 I wrote a blog post that became really popular: Installing VMware tools on Centos 6 via yum. Few years forward, and today the preferred tools are the open sourced ones available natively in many linux package managers. So, some may think to switch from one version to the other one for their existing virtual machines. That’s what I’ve done in some of my virtual machines, and here is the process.

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Installare vmware tools su Centos 5

Luca Dell'Oca, September 10, 2010December 4, 2016

Anche se CentOS risulta tra i sistemi operativi supportati da ESXi 4.1 e nonostante sia una derivata RedHat, per questo sistema vmware non mette a disposizione il pacchetto rpm ma il tar.gz. Vediamo quindi brevemente come installarlo: abbiamo bisogno innanzitutto del kernel-devel per compilare i nuovi moduli kernel. Verifichiamo quindi…

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